Chime and strike clock movement



F. WEH|NGER. CHIME AND STRIKE CLOCK MOVEMENT.

Y APPLlCATlON FILED SEPT-19.3921. 1,399,452.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

vUNITED STATES PATENT orrics.

FREDERICK WEHINGER, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO W'ATERBURY CLOCK CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

CRIME AND STRIKE CLOCK MOVEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

Application filed September 29, 1921. Serial No. 504,191.

tion with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked therein, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitnte part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a broken View in rear elevation of the upper portion of a clock-movement embodying my improvement, with the converting means assembled as for a relatively large dial.

Fig. 2 a plan View thereof.

Fig. 3 a View corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the converting means assembled as for use with a smaller dial.

Fig. 41 a detached view in elevation of one of the two auxiliary plates.

Fig. 5 a detached view in elevation of the chime-cut-out-lever.

Fig. 6 a corresponding view of the regulator-lever.

My invention relates to an improvement in chime and strike clock-movements, the object being to adapt a movement of given size to be readily converted for use with dials laid out to have their chime-cut-outarbor holes and their regulator-arbor holes located at different distances from their center arbor-holes.

lVith these ends in view, my invention consists in.a clock-movement having certain details oi construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employ two complementary, auxiliary plates 10 and 11, secured at their ends by screws 12 to the upper corners or the rear and front movement-plates 13 and 14, above which the said auxiliary plates extend. Each of the auxiliary plates is provided with an upper and a lower pair of bearing-holes 15, the holes of the lower pair being nearer together than the holes of the upper pair, and the holes in the rear plate being larger than the holes in the front plate to provide for the mounting of the friction-bushings 16, which provide bearings for the regulatorarbor 17 and the chime-cut-out-arbor 18, the forward ends of which bear, as the case may be, in the upper or lower pair of holes 15 in the front auxiliary plate. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the said arbors are mounted in the upper pair of bearing-holes in the said auxiliary plates, while in Fig.

The projecting rear end or" the regulatorarbor 17 mounts a crank-disk 19 carrying an eccentrically positioned screw-stud 20 passing through an inclined, converting-slot 21 in the outer upper corner of a regulator-lever 22 pivoted upon the right-hand end of the plate 10 by means of a screw-stud 23. The said lever is also furnished with a horizontal converting-slot 2 1, likewise adapted to re-' which is not shown may be oi? an a proved a o y l. 1

design. By turning the arbor 17, the lever 22 is swung on its screw-stud 23 so as to raise or lower the stud 26 and hence the pendulum-rod, whereby the clock is regulated.

The projecting rear end of the chime-cutout-arbor 18 mounts crank-disk carrying an eccentrically placed screw-stud 28 passing through a vertical converting-slot 29 in the upper portion of a chime-cut-outlever 30 secured to the inner end of a sleeve 31 rocking upon a stud 32 and provided at its outer end with a cut-out finger 33 bearing upon the respective hammer-tails The lever 30 is also provided with a vertical converting-slot 35, corresponding to the slot 29 but located below the same and inward, toward the center of the movement. It desired, the chime-cut-out-lever 30 may be used to out out a strike-mechanism just as well as a chime-mechanism. The forward end of the arbor 18 is also squared for the application of an operating pointer (not shown) by which it is manually turned as required.

0 they are mounted in the holes of the lower pair.

For locating the arbors 17 and '18 to correspond to the different positions of the converting-slots 21 and 24:, in the lever 22, and

the slots 29 and 35, in the lever 30, the rear and front bridges l0 and 11 are each provided, as described, with two pairs of mounting-holes 15, as already described and as shown in Fig. 4.

When my improved movement is assembled for use with a dial such as 36, in which the holes for the arbors 17 and 18 are located at a relatively long distance from the eeri ter-arbor hole of the dial, the said arbors 17 and 18 are mounted in the upper holes 15 of the plates, as shown in Figs, land 2. The stud 20 then operates in the inclined converting-slot 21 of the lever 22, while the stud 28 operates in the upper converting-slot, 29 of the lever 30.

Now without any change in the movement, all that it is necessary to do to convert it for use with a relatively smaller dial, such as 37, in which the holes for the regulator-arbor and'the ohime-cut-out-arhor are located relatively nearer the center arbor-hole, is to mount the arbors 17 and 18 in'the lower holes 15 of the plates 10 and 11, and to pass the, eccentric-studs 20 and 28 through the. converting-slots 2 and 35 of the respective levers 22 and 30. I am thus enabled to make one movement answer for dialsof two dif- V arbors mounted in the said bearings, levers connected with one of the said plates and adapted to be operably connected respec-;

tively with thesaid arbors, wherever the same are mounted in the auxiliary plates,

and means for connecting the said levers wlth parts of the clock-movement.-

2. In a clock-movement, the combination with the movement-plates thereof, of aux iliary plates secured to the upper portions of the respective movement-plates, and provided with a'pair of upper bearings and a pair of lower-bearings, the bearings of the lower pair being closer together than the bearings of the upper pair, a regulatorarbor and a cut-out arbor mounted in the levers pivotally mounted upon, one of the said plates and each provided with two converting-slots, eccentric connection between bearings of either one pair or the other, A

the said arbors andthesaid slots, and means 7 connecting the said levers with parts of the bearings and a pair of lower bearings, of

which the bearings of the lower pair are lo cated closer together than thebearings of the upper pair, a regulator-arbor and a cut-out' arbor mountedrin the bearings of one pair or the other, a crank-disk mounted upon each of the said arbors and carrying a screwstud, levers pivotally mounted upon one of a V the said plates and each provided with two converting-slots, the upper slots of the said levers being spaced apart more than the lower slots thereof, and thesaid slots receiv- 1 ing the screw-studs of the crankedisks; and means for connecting the, said levers with parts of the clock-movement. 1 I

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V a V CFREDERICK WEHINGER.

Witnesses:

J. R. PUTNAM, G. O. A LEN. V 

